Jonny Greenwood, Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Last year, Radiohead made their triumphant return to the stage for their first public concerts since 2018. The legendary avant-rock ensemble’s run of 20 performances in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin from Nov. 4 to Dec. 16 transcended expectations; in the round, encircled by the audience and a towering cage of translucent screens that rose and fell, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Colin Greenwood and Philip Selway pulled from a bank of 65 songs to deliver consistently stunning stagings. In a new interview with The Times, guitarist Jonny Greenwood reflected on the experience and what it could mean for the band’s future.

“It was great to revisit songs that we always felt were good and to find lots of other people now agree with us,” Greenwood shared in an aside from a conversation largely focused on his classical composing. “And it was really nice to be playing and listening to Thom [Yorke] again. But I found it strange not to be doing anything new on the tour. I guess we are all doing new music elsewhere now so that’s where our creative energies are going.”

When asked whether the band’s celebrated reunion run could bring the band together for the long-awaited follow-up to their ninth studio album, 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool, Greenwood said, “I’ve no idea.”

“I mean, I’m surprised that the tour actually happened and that we all enjoyed it so much,” the artist reflected. “But venues get booked so far in advance. To do another we would have to decide now, and even then it wouldn’t happen for 18 months.” Indeed, the 2025 tour had begun by March, when the group formed the RHEUK25 limited liability partnership, and a September interview with Colin Greenwood indicated that rehearsals had begun by the summer.

While Radiohead’s members has pursued independent ventures, Jonny Greenwood’s focus has largely been concentrated on film scoring, including works for 2021’s Spencer and The Power of the Dog and a continued partnership with director Paul Thomas Anderson that’s yielded compositions for 2018’s Phantom Thread, 2021’s Licorice Pizza and a currently Academy Award-nominated score for 2025’s One Battle After Another.

Elsewhere in the new interview, Greenwood spoke to his process and singular perspective with symphonic work. “I still feel like I’m trapped in pop song thinking,” he said. “All my ideas seem to have a natural three or four-minute span, and I find it daunting to expand them. I guess that’s because I grew up in an era when if you wrote a song more than four minutes long you worried that you would turn into Genesis and end up singing about unicorns.”

Read a full review of Radiohead’s 2025 reunion tour here.